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We, the undersigned, support three bills in Congress that, if passed, will provide coverage of nearly every butt in America that should be screened: those belonging to the poor and underserved, the elderly and those with private insurance.

* HR 1738: The Colorectal Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment Act will establish a program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide colorectal cancer screenings and treatment for low-income, uninsured and underinsured individuals who are not eligible for Medicare.
* HR 1926/S 1164: The Colon Cancer Screen for Life Act will expand existing Medicare coverage of colorectal cancer screening to include pre-procedure visits and other reimbursements, minimizing the out-of-pocket expenses for our nation’s elderly.
* HR 3060: The Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Coverage Act would require private health insurance plans to provide coverage for colorectal cancer. Plus, the bill will protect anyone from being denied a policy due to their need for colorectal cancer screening.



PUT AN END TO COLON CANCER!

Let's put an END to Colon Cancer 215 Signatures

Published by Tina Dube on Jul 01, 2006
Category: Health
Region: United States of America
Target: Congress & State legislatures
Web site: http://www.darlenehope.com
Description/History:
This petition is to mandate that all insurance companies cover colonoscopies along with other appropriate screening tools for everyone 18-20 and older.

Voices of Fairfield County.
Petition:
We the undersigned, Citizens, Voters, Families, Friends, Americans, having endured the loss of 56,000 Americans year upon year, decade after decade, now demand that action be taken.

From the moment of the discovery that polyps turn into colon cancer, and their removal prevents it, we had the ability to nearly end this cancer 100%.

We ask that you mandate that all insurance companies cover colonoscopies along with other appropriate screening tools for everyone 18-20 and older. 56,000 lives will be lost this year, and every year until you do.

135,000+ Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer every year - devastating their financial resources and often tearing their families apart.
Sign the petitionThe Let's put an END to Colon Cancer petition to Congress & State legislatures was written by Tina Dube and is hosted free of charge at GoPetition.

Online petition - Let's put an END to Colon Cancer

I NEED EVERYONE'S HELP!


Please read my purpose. Thanks. And can you pass this on? I only need 107 signatures to make 2,000. The guestbook link is at the bottom. Then I will be done.






Thanks and Love, Dottie

COLON CANCER SCREENING LAWS NOW COVER HALF OF U.S.






POPULATION

Five States Passed Laws in 2007, but 26 Still Earn D's or F's on Legislation Report Card



Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for men and women combined in the United States, but it doesn't have to be. Colorectal cancer can be successfully treated more than 90% of the time when detected early.








Unfortunately, there is no federal legislation requiring insurance providers to cover the cost of preventative screenings, leaving many people uncertain whether or not these screenings are covered by their insurance providers. In recent years a number of states have adopted preventative screening legislation for colorectal cancer.








In this 2008 Colorectal Cancer Legislation Report Card, find out if your state has passed preventative screening legislation, and what you can do if your state fails to make the grade.









http://www. eifoundation. org/national/nccra/report_card/


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.... .... Mocking the disease. I have learned that even on the worst days I could mock the illness and say oh man too much bathroom time. That's my favorite room in the house. I am grateful for all the times I get to see my towels. This is what I did. I named my stoma Sylvia. A stoma is a piece of intestine placed outside your belly skin to release stool. Well here is something else I shared at the cancer hospital a few months ago. The patients, nurses, and doctors had a good laugh. Hope you enjoy too! Molly, my hero! Yes, she's a horse, but I want to be like her! Meet Molly. She's a gray speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Katrina hit southern Louisiana, USA . She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier, and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg became infected and her vet went to LSU for help. But LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes.
But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn't seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her. She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight, and didn't overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival ethic.

Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee and a temporary artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic and her story really begins there.

"This was the right horse and the right owner," Moore insists.
Molly happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She's tough as nails, but sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain. She made it obvious she understood (that) she was in trouble. The other important factor, according to Moore , is having a truly committed and compliant owner who is dedicated to providing the daily care required over the lifetime of the horse.

Molly's story turns into a parable for life in post-Katrina Louisiana . The little pony gained weight, her mane felt a comb. A human prosthesis designer built her a leg.

The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca DVM, Molly's regular vet, reports.

And she asks for it! She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too." And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. "It can be pretty bad when you can't catch a three-legged horse", she laughs.

Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kay, the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers. Anywhere she thought that people needed hope. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people. And she had a good time doing it.

"It's obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life", Moore said, "She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others."
"She's not back to normal," Bar ca concluded, "but she's going to be better. To me, she could be a symbol for New Orleans itself."




This is Molly's most recent prosthesis. The bottom photo shows the ground surface that she stands on, which has a smiley face embossed in it.

Wherever Molly goes, she leaves a smiley hoof print behind!




Do you support colon cancer legislation in all of the U.S.?I was diagnosed with colorectal adenomacarcinoma on July 17, 2006. I will always remember that day. It was pouring rain here in Florida and the gastroenterologist wanted to see me in his office at 4:30 p.m. I moaned and cried sounds that I have never heard from me ever. The dogs were so upset that they were doing things they never did before. It was like I was living someone else's life. When I was waiting in the doctor's office with my best friend, I saw one of the medical assistants leaving. And I said to myself, how blessed that person is to leave with a healthy body. My cat Rosie, disappeared the night of my diagnosis along with my other, Belle, two weeks previous. I do not know how I made the runs to the shelters between pet/ct scans and rectal ultrasounds, I know now it was Someone helping me through even though I was on a different plane of consciousness as my friend calls it. I call it shock while the body is going through the motions. Since then, I have not taken my life for granted and I pray that I never will again. I have gone through an implant of a chemo port to my heart, six weeks of chemotherapy (through an intravenous 5fu pump), six weeks of radiation, a bowel resection with an ileostomy bag, and now I am going through 18 weeks of 5fu, oxaliplatin, and leucovorin for the post-surgical chemotherapy. I was diagnosed stage IIIA with metastasis to one adjacent lymph node by the tumor. What was left of the tumor ,which was shrunk significantly by the pre-surgery chemo/radiation, was found one centimeter from the anal sphincter! The anal sphincter is the muscle which moves when you go to the bathroom and it also helps hold your bowel movements. Thus, my surgeon saved my anal sphincter with only a thread in which to work. I am blessed to be here today and I am working full-time. I finished chemo on April 20th. The pet scan came up clean. Now we are looking to the final cancer surgery which is the reversal of the bowel back into place so I can eliminate stool like others. It has been 3 months since the ostomy reversal surgery, and it seems like everything has gotten almost 'normal'. My scans are clean, my cancer markers in the blood are good, and my colonoscopy found one baby polyp. I am very, very blessed. Thank you for your prayers!!